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Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere...
The extent of snow cover and sea ice in the Northern Hemispherehas declined since 1979, coincident with hemispheric warming and indicative of a positive feedback of surface...- publication PDF
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Clear-sky column water vapor retrievals using the Airborne Imaging Microwave...
The brightness temperature measurements from the Airborne Imaging Microwave Radiometer ( AIMR) microwave radiometer 37 GHz and 90 GHz channels are used to determine the column...- publication PDF
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Antarctic data impact experiments with Polar WRF during the YOPP-SH summer...
Data impact experiments are conducted employing the Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model during the YOPP-SH summer special observing period (SOP) using the...- publication PDF
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Are the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Northern Annular Mode distinguishable?
This study addresses the question of whether persistent events of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) teleconnection patterns are...- publication PDF
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Air parcel trajectory dispersion near the tropical tropopause
Dispersion of backward air parcel trajectories that are initially tightly grouped near the tropical tropopause is examined using three ensemble approaches: "RANWIND," in which...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric ozone depletion: An unlikely driver of the regional trends in...
It has been suggested that recent regional trends in Antarctic sea ice might have been caused by the formation of the ozone hole in the late twentieth century. Here we explore...- publication PDF
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Why the western Pacific subtropical high has extended westward since the late 1970s
he western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) is closely related to Asian climate. Previous examination of changes in the WPSH found a westward extension since the late 1970s,...- publication PDF
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Improvement in the use of an operational constellation of GPS radio...
As of May 2007, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) implemented a new Global Data Assimilation System. This system incorporated the assimilation of global...- publication PDF
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Characteristics of tropospheric ozone depletion events in the Arctic spring:...
Arctic ozone depletion events (ODEs) are caused by halogen catalyzed ozone loss. In situ chemistry, advection of ozone-poor air mass, and vertical mixing in the lower...- publication PDF
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Effects of convective scale downdrafts on the rainfall simulation in NCAR-CAM3
In this work, an attempt is made to systematically evaluate the effect of convective scale downdrafts on the model-simulated rainfall, in both aqua- and actual-planet...- publication PDF
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Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment: P-3 aircraft operations summary
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Extreme cold winter temperatures in Europe under the influence of North...
North Atlantic atmospheric blocking conditions explain part of the winter climate variability in Europe, being associated with anomalous cold winter temperatures. In this study,...- publication PDF
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Object-based verification of precipitation forecasts, Part I: Methodology...
A recently developed method of defining rain areas for the purpose of verifying precipitation produced by numerical weather prediction models is described. Precipitation objects...- publication PDF
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A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model...
The hydroxyl radical (OH) plays critical roles within the troposphere, such as determining the lifetime of methane (CH4), yet is challenging to model due to its fast cycling and...- publication PDF
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Quasi two day wave-related variability in the background dynamics and...
Dissipating planetary waves in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere (MLT) region may cause changes in the background dynamics of that region, subsequently driving variability...- publication PDF
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Operational hydrological data assimilation with the recursive ensemble Kalman filter
This paper describes the design and use of a recursive ensemble Kalman filter (REnKF) to assimilate streamflow data in an operational flow forecasting system of seven catchments...- publication PDF
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Combining airborne gas and aerosol measurements with HYSPLIT: A...
The history of air masses is often investigated using backward trajectories to gain knowledge about processes along the air parcel path as well as possible source regions. Here,...- publication PDF
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First observations of short-period eastward propagating planetary waves from...
Unique Fe lidar observations in May 2014 at McMurdo, combined with Aura-Microwave Limb Sounder measurements, lead to a new discovery that the amplitudes of 4 day and 2.5 day...- publication PDF
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Analysis of WRF-simulated diurnal boundary layer winds in eastern China...
The low-level diurnal winds for different locations of eastern China are documented using the June 2006-11 hourly model data simulated with the Weather Research and Forecasting...- publication PDF
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Global estimates of gravity wave momentum flux from High Resolution Dynamics...
High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) temperature profiles are analyzed to derive global properties of gravity waves. We describe a wavelet analysis technique that...- publication PDF
